The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-09-15

and if the scale be not signed there will be
strike The workmen expect an advance,
but the operators will not pay more than
the present wages.
The two Canadian convicts who escaped
from the Kingston. Ont, penitentiary in a
yacht, landed near Oswego, N. Y, and
have disappeared.
One hundred employees of the Pennsylvania
granite works have gone on strike because
the company hired three non-union stone-
cutters.
A Canadian vessel has been seized by the
American authorities at Suspension Bridge,
n. T., for carrying passengers contrary to
law.
Pigman and Perry, OF the Rowan County,
KY, vendetta, were acquitted of the charge
Of killing Craig Tolliver.
Fires and Casualties.
Fire in the Hadsleigh mill at Springfield,
Mass, caused a loss of $4,000.
A fire originating in an eating house de-
stroyed a whole block Of business houses at
Cairo, Ill.
The business portion of Calico, a village
iHnsutheFn California. was burned. Loss,
s75, 900 to $i00,G00
At Somerset, KY, the machine shops of
the Barren Fork Coal company were burned
Loss over 100000.
A fire of incendiary origin DESTROYED the
residence of William Baxter, of Murdoch.
iii The loss was over 5000.
The Oak Grove seminary at Waterville,
Me-, occupied as Quaker school, was de-
stroyed by fire. A son of stephen Jones,
aged III perished in the flames.
Odilen Menard, his wife and baby were
struck by train when driving across the
track at Salem, Mass. The man and child
were killed and the woman, it is thought,
fatally injured.
Fire destroyed the Roaring Springs, Pa !,
blank book factory building and wareroom,
with all the machinery, stocks. books, and a
large quantity of paper; also wagon manu-
factory. Loss about <;'5 90; insurance, So,
0Oo.
The business portion and several resi-
dences Of the village of Newbury, Ontario,
has been destroyed by fire, John Wells was
SO seriously burned that he will probably
die. Loss, 10000: insurance unknown.
Fifty families are houseless.
AT Patterson, N. j.. fire started in the
Joseph jackson silk mill, a part of the
Grant Locomotive works building, and was
communicated TO every part of the build
ing. OF the Grant works nothing remains
but the erecting shop, the foundry and a
part OF the new machine shop The loss is
$l5U,0O.
At Rushville, Ind, two destructive fires
occurred in one day burning two dwellings
entire, damaging others and destroying
several barns aud the old woclen mills. con
tanning machinery to the value of about $40.
uOo There was no insurance on anything.
The fire started i'll a stable belonging to
William Havens, supposed to have been
started by tramps with view to burglary,
as several of item were arrested while
robhing houses during the progress of the
fire. The total loss is estimated at $4,000
to SlaO,.GO.
A special from st. Johns, New Foundland
says reports daily arriving from all parts
of the country go to show that the gale of
the a6th of August was one that will long be
remembered for the loss of life aud extent
of damage sustained One hundred thousand
dollars will not cover the extent of damage
to property sustained by New Foundland
vessels that We're on the banks during the
storm. There are as many as five lanking
schooners missing from Rurin, five from
Grand Bank and one from Burgeo, all of
which were on the banks on the morning of
| the gale, and have not yet been seen or
| heard from. II the worst should come to
pass and that these vessels are lost, the
| bread winners of hundreds will have met IA
| watery grave